Improvement in harrows



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAOKSON DE MOSS, OF NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPRQV EM ENT IN HARROWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 181,054 daced August 15, 1876; application fi1ed June 26. 1876.

T0 all whom it mag; concem Be in known that I, JAGKSON DE Moss, of Noblesville, in the county of Hamilton, and in the State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and Improved Harrow, of which tl1e following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal seetion of myin1- proved harrow, taken through the line x w, Fig. 2. Fig.2 is a top view of the same.

The-objeot of this invention is to furnish an improved harrow or pulverizer which shall be simple in eonstruction, eonvenient in use, and efi'eetive in operation, thoroughly pulverizing the ground, and adjusting itself to an irregu- 1ar surfaoe, so that it will level down a ridge and fill up a dead furrow with equal effeotiveness, whioh may be easily cleared. of rubbish, raised 1:0 pass an obstruction, and may' be easily loaded upon and unloaded from a vehicle for transpoxting it from plane 130 plaoe.

A is the central o1 longitudinal bar 01' bean1 of the harrow, to the forward end of whieh the drall: is applied, and to the opposite sides of tl1e rear part of whicl1 are attached iron bars B, having an eye formed upon each end, to receive the hooks G, attaohed to the forward ende of the inclined bare D of the wings or side parts of the harrow. 'Ihe forward parts of l:he inelined bars D of each wing are couneoted by a cross-bar, E, and their rear parts are connected by a oross-bar, F. The erossbare F projeob inward, so as to nearly meet, and to one is attached an eye-bar, G, 130 reoeive a hook, H, attached to the otl1er.

By this ooustruction both wings can incline downward or upward, 01 one ean incline downward and tl1e other upward, as the surface of the ground may require.

T0 the rear end of the inner bar D of eaoh wing is attaohed an arehed or bow handle, I, the plane of whioh is longitudinal With the said bar, so thai; the said handles will never be in the way, and ab the same time will always be in a oonvenient; position for use.

The rear hook H may have a pin passed through it 130 prevenb tl1e harrow-frame from ooming apart when in use.

J are tl1e teeth, Lhree of whioh are attached to the eenter bar A, and the olzhers are attaehed. to the inolined bars D of the wings. 'lne teeth J should be so arranged lahat 110 two of tl1em will travel in the Same tarack, and may be so arranged that their tracks may be an inoh 0x any otzher desired distance apart.

By remoflng the teeth J from the central beam A the harrow may be used for oultivating srnall corn, 01 otl1er small plants planted in rows, loosening the soll upou both sides of Y the row ab tl1e same time.

With this construotion, by removing the pin from the hook H and pushing the leftband wing forward, the harrow Will eome apart, and n1ay be easily loaded upon a velxiole.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhe oombination of the central bar A, provided with the eye-bars B, the wings D E F, Ehe hooks G H, and. Ehe eyebar G, with eaeh other, substantially as herein shown and desoribed.

JAOKSON DE MOSS. Witnesses:

.[SAAC S. POE, JOHN R. MEKKER. 

